Public Reel

KNIFE IN THE BACK

the reputation of a cowardly Hollywood actor. Credits: Producer and director, Frank P. Keller; original story, Edward Bernds; screenplay, Lee Gold; narrative by Charles Kennedy; narrator, Helene Burke; film editor, Walter Wilkinson, Cast: Ruth Petersen, Jack Weatherford, Pat Corleto, Charles Freeman

Registration LP1751 No renewal found

Term began
1951-07-27
Claimant
Frank P. Keller
Class
LP — published photoplay (numbering series begun Jan. 1950)
Finding
no renewal entry found for 1978-1980 or in the Copyright Office renewal records 1978-2025
In the public domain since
1 January 1980 (end of the 28th year, no renewal)

A renewal would have appeared in the Copyright Office's renewal registrations 27 to 29 years after the term began. Those volumes are loaded and no matching renewal was found. A work published 1931–1963 that was not renewed entered the public domain at the end of its 28th year.

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Catalog entry

Catalog of Copyright Entries, Third Series, Parts 12–13: Motion Pictures, 1952, Internet Archive catalogofcopyrig361213lib (OCR text), lines 9032–9043.

stores the reputation of a cowardly Holly- 
wood actor. 

Credits: Producer and director, Frank P. 
Keller; original story, Edward Bernds; 
screenplay, Lee Gold; narrative by Charles 
Kennedy; narrator, Helene Burke; film 
editor, Walter Wilkinson, Cast: Ruth 
Petersen, Jack Weatherford, Pat Corleto, 
Charles Freeman. 

© Frank P. Keller; 27Jul51; LP1751. 

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